Court threw out following legal defenses:

1. search provider privilege (exemption from liability for search results) and

2. “but go check yourself“.

Only applies to cease-and-desist claims for reason mentioned above (no fault required).

Not directly applicable to other liability cases (e. g. for compensation); lawyers‘ fees must be reimbursed though (often ~ 2K to 5K pre court).

I imagine this has to do with the legal principle under German law that cease-and-desist claims do not require fault.

Which is to say, other German courts can certainly look at this precedent, but they are not necessarily bound by it. Ultimately, this will only be "settled" at the higher courts.

That assumption has turned out to be more correct than I would've liked, but maybe the gears are finally turning in the right direction

I'm not saying it was a _good_ idea just that even the discovery benefits of aggregators can be seen as harmful by the… agregatees?

Blame the actual people running the company and name them all in the lawsuits, and declare that the Overviews are their collective 'own words'.

Then we'll see change.

Unfortunately people do.

I suspect that this means that Microsoft's entertainment-only fig leaf would not carry legal weight in Germany. If 'everyone knows this product is trash that shouldn't be used for anything important' doesn't absolve you of liability for one LLM use, it probably doesn't for any other.